Art Transfer Pathway

Alternative Job Titles for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

• Artist
• Automotive Artist
• Blacksmith
• Fine Artist
• Ice Carver
• Illustrator
• Muralist
• Painter
• Portrait Artist
• Sculptor

Job Tasks and Activities for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

• Apply finishes to artwork, crafts, or displays.
• Arrange artwork, products, or props.
• Brush or spray protective or decorative finishes on completed background panels, informational legends, exhibit accessories, or finished paintings.
• Build models, patterns, or templates.
• Collaborate with engineers, mechanics, and other technical experts as necessary to build and install creations.
• Collaborate with others to determine technical details of productions.
• Collaborate with others to prepare or perform artistic productions.
• Collaborate with writers who create ideas, stories, or captions that are combined with artists' work.
• Conduct research to inform art, designs, or other work.
• Confer with clients, editors, writers, art directors, and other interested parties regarding the nature and content of artwork to be produced.
• Construct distinctive physical objects for artistic, functional, or commercial purposes.
• Coordinate logistics for productions or events.
• Create and prepare sketches and model drawings of cartoon characters, providing details from memory, live models, manufactured products, or reference materials.
• Create finished art work as decoration, or to elucidate or substitute for spoken or written messages.
• Create sculptures, statues, and other three-dimensional artwork by using abrasives and tools to shape, carve, and fabricate materials such as clay, stone, wood, or metal.
• Create sketches, profiles, or likenesses of posed subjects or photographs, using any combination of freehand drawing, mechanical assembly kits, and computer imaging.
• Cut, bend, laminate, arrange, and fasten individual or mixed raw and manufactured materials and products to form works of art.
• Develop artistic or design concepts for decoration, exhibition, or commercial purposes.
• Develop project budgets for approval, estimating time lines and material costs.
• Draw detailed or technical illustrations.
• Estimate costs for projects or productions.
• Frame and mat artwork for display or sale.
• Integrate and develop visual elements, such as line, space, mass, color, and perspective, to produce desired effects, such as the illustration of ideas, emotions, or moods.
• Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities.
• Maintain records, documents, or other files.
• Market artwork through brochures, mailings, or Web sites.
• Model substances such as clay or wax, using fingers and small hand tools to form objects.
• Monitor current trends.
• Monitor events, trends, and other circumstances, research specific subject areas, attend art exhibitions, and read art publications to develop ideas and keep current on art world activities.
• Operate still or video cameras or related equipment.
• Perform marketing activities.
• Photograph objects, places, or scenes for reference material.
• Prepare materials for preservation, storage, or display.
• Present work to clients for approval.
• Render drawings, illustrations, and sketches of buildings, manufactured products, or models, working from sketches, blueprints, memory, models, or reference materials.
• Research new technologies.
• Send information, materials or documentation.
• Set up exhibitions of artwork for display or sale.
• Shade and fill in sketch outlines and backgrounds, using a variety of media such as water colors, markers, and transparent washes, labeling designated colors when necessary.
• Study different techniques to learn how to apply them to artistic endeavors.
• Submit artwork to shows or galleries.
• Submit preliminary or finished artwork or project plans to clients for approval, incorporating changes as necessary.
• Teach artistic techniques to children or adults.
• Teach classes in area of specialization.
• Trace drawings onto clear acetate for painting or coloring, or trace them with ink to make final copies.

Interests for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

• Artistic
  Creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials.
• Realistic
  Designing, building, or repairing equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors.

Skills for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

In order of importance

• Active Learning
  Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.
  Importance: 56/100
• Critical Thinking
  Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
  Importance: 56/100
• Active Listening
  Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
  Importance: 53/100
• Reading Comprehension
  Reading work-related information.
  Importance: 50/100
• Speaking
  Talking to others.
  Importance: 50/100
• Judgment and Decision Making
  Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
  Importance: 50/100
• Writing
  Writing things for co-workers or customers.
  Importance: 47/100
• Complex Problem Solving
  Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
  Importance: 47/100
• Social Perceptiveness
  Understanding people's reactions.
  Importance: 47/100
• Time Management
  Managing your time and the time of other people.
  Importance: 47/100
• Monitoring
  Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
  Importance: 44/100
• Operations Analysis
  Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.
  Importance: 41/100
• Coordination
  Changing what is done based on other people's actions.
  Importance: 38/100
• Service Orientation
  Looking for ways to help people.
  Importance: 38/100
• Learning Strategies
  Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.
  Importance: 35/100
• Operations Monitoring
  Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.
  Importance: 35/100
• Persuasion
  Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.
  Importance: 35/100
• Quality Control Analysis
  Testing how well a product or service works.
  Importance: 35/100
• Systems Analysis
  Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
  Importance: 31/100
• Systems Evaluation
  Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
  Importance: 28/100
• Mathematics
  Using math to solve problems.
  Importance: 28/100
• Operation and Control
  Using equipment or systems.
  Importance: 28/100
• Management of Financial Resources
  Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.
  Importance: 25/100
• Negotiation
  Bringing people together to solve differences.
  Importance: 25/100
• Equipment Selection
  Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.
  Importance: 25/100
• Management of Material Resources
  Managing equipment and materials.
  Importance: 22/100
• Troubleshooting
  Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.
  Importance: 22/100
• Instructing
  Teaching people how to do something.
  Importance: 19/100
• Management of Personnel Resources
  Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.
  Importance: 19/100
• Technology Design
  Making equipment and technology useful for customers.
  Importance: 16/100
• Programming
  Writing computer programs.
  Importance: 16/100

Knowledge for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

In order of importance

• Design
  Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
  Importance: 84/100
• Computers and Electronics
  Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
  Importance: 81/100
• English Language
  Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
  Importance: 72/100
• Production and Processing
  Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
  Importance: 65/100
• Fine Arts
  Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
  Importance: 61/100
• Education and Training
  Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
  Importance: 60/100
• Communications and Media
  Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
  Importance: 59/100
• Customer and Personal Service
  Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  Importance: 58/100
• Mathematics
  Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
  Importance: 55/100
• Administration and Management
  Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
  Importance: 51/100
• Psychology
  Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
  Importance: 45/100
• Geography
  Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
  Importance: 43/100
• Administrative
  Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
  Importance: 43/100
• Engineering and Technology
  Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
  Importance: 41/100
• Sales and Marketing
  Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
  Importance: 39/100
• Public Safety and Security
  Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
  Importance: 35/100
• Sociology and Anthropology
  Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
  Importance: 35/100
• Transportation
  Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
  Importance: 35/100
• Law and Government
  Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
  Importance: 33/100
• Telecommunications
  Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
  Importance: 29/100
• Building and Construction
  Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
  Importance: 27/100
• Chemistry
  Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
  Importance: 27/100
• Mechanical
  Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
  Importance: 27/100
• Economics and Accounting
  Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  Importance: 26/100
• History and Archeology
  Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
  Importance: 20/100
• Personnel and Human Resources
  Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
  Importance: 18/100
• Physics
  Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
  Importance: 16/100
• Philosophy and Theology
  Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
  Importance: 16/100
• Biology
  Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
  Importance: 10/100
• Foreign Language
  Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
  Importance: 7/100
• Therapy and Counseling
  Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
  Importance: 2/100

Physical Abilities for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

In order of importance

• Originality
  Creating new and original ideas.
  Importance: 85/100
• Visualization
  Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.
  Importance: 75/100
• Fluency of Ideas
  Coming up with lots of ideas.
  Importance: 75/100
• Visual Color Discrimination
  Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.
  Importance: 69/100
• Arm-Hand Steadiness
  Keeping your arm or hand steady.
  Importance: 69/100
• Near Vision
  Seeing details up close.
  Importance: 66/100
• Finger Dexterity
  Putting together small parts with your fingers.
  Importance: 60/100
• Manual Dexterity
  Holding or moving items with your hands.
  Importance: 60/100
• Oral Comprehension
  Listening and understanding what people say.
  Importance: 53/100
• Category Flexibility
  Grouping things in different ways.
  Importance: 53/100
• Information Ordering
  Ordering or arranging things.
  Importance: 50/100
• Written Comprehension
  Reading and understanding what is written.
  Importance: 50/100
• Far Vision
  Seeing details that are far away.
  Importance: 50/100
• Speech Clarity
  Speaking clearly.
  Importance: 50/100
• Oral Expression
  Communicating by speaking.
  Importance: 50/100
• Deductive Reasoning
  Using rules to solve problems.
  Importance: 50/100
• Speech Recognition
  Recognizing spoken words.
  Importance: 50/100
• Inductive Reasoning
  Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.
  Importance: 50/100
• Problem Sensitivity
  Noticing when problems happen.
  Importance: 50/100
• Written Expression
  Communicating by writing.
  Importance: 47/100
• Multilimb Coordination
  Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.
  Importance: 47/100
• Selective Attention
  Paying attention to something without being distracted.
  Importance: 47/100
• Control Precision
  Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.
  Importance: 47/100
• Flexibility of Closure
  Seeing hidden patterns.
  Importance: 44/100
• Static Strength
  Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.
  Importance: 41/100
• Perceptual Speed
  Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.
  Importance: 38/100
• Trunk Strength
  Using your lower back and stomach.
  Importance: 38/100
• Time Sharing
  Doing two or more things at the same time.
  Importance: 31/100
• Dynamic Strength
  Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.
  Importance: 31/100
• Speed of Closure
  Quickly knowing what you are looking at.
  Importance: 28/100
• Extent Flexibility
  Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  Importance: 28/100
• Wrist-Finger Speed
  Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.
  Importance: 28/100
• Mathematical Reasoning
  Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.
  Importance: 28/100
• Depth Perception
  Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.
  Importance: 28/100
• Number Facility
  Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.
  Importance: 28/100
• Stamina
  Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.
  Importance: 22/100
• Gross Body Coordination
  Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.
  Importance: 22/100
• Auditory Attention
  Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.
  Importance: 22/100
• Hearing Sensitivity
  Telling the difference between sounds.
  Importance: 19/100
• Gross Body Equilibrium
  Keeping your balance or staying upright.
  Importance: 19/100
• Memorization
  Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.
  Importance: 19/100
• Response Orientation
  Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.
  Importance: 19/100
• Rate Control
  Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.
  Importance: 19/100
• Reaction Time
  Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.
  Importance: 19/100
• Explosive Strength
  Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.
  Importance: 13/100
• Dynamic Flexibility
  Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  Importance: 6/100
• Speed of Limb Movement
  Quickly moving your arms and legs.
  Importance: 3/100

Tools and Technology used by Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

• Anatomical models
• Angle grinder
• Artist knives
• Bench scales
• Blow torch
• Calipers
• Camera flashes or lighting
• Camera lens
• Camera lens filter
• Camera tripods
• Clay or modeling tools
• Developing tongs
• Developing trays
• Digital cameras
• Drying cabinets or ovens
• Extruders for modeling materials
• Film squeegee
• Fountain pens
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Grinding machines
• Hammers
• Handheld thermometer
• Hydrometers
• Kiln accessories for firing ceramics
• Kiln furniture
• Kilns for firing ceramics
• Laboratory graduated cylinders
• Laser printers
• Masks or accessories
• Mat cutter
• Metal inert gas welding machine
• Notebook computers
• Paint sprayers
• Palette knives
• Palettes for paint or ink mixing
• Personal computers
• Photographic enlargers
• Photographic timer
• Plasma cutting machine
• Pneumatic hammer
• Potters wheels for hand made ceramics
• Power grinders
• Power sanders
• Power saws
• Protective gloves
• Pyrometers
• Rasps
• Rock cutters
• Safety glasses
• Sand blasting machine
• Scanners
• Sharpening stones or tools or kits
• Shielded metal arc welding or stick welding machine
• Spatulas
• Specialty brushes
• Spirit burners
• Stonemason chisel
• Tablet computers
• Thermocouples
• Tile cutter
• Tongs
• Triple beam balances
• Utility knives
• Viscosimeters
• Watercolor brushes
• Welding masks
• Wood chisels
• Wood gouge
• Wood mannequins
• Accounting software
  • Intuit QuickBooks
• Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk 3D Studio Design
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Dassault Systemes CATIA
  • Trimble SketchUp Pro
• Configuration management software
  • Perforce Helix software
• Data base user interface and query software
  • ArtScope.net eArtist
  • Camp Software Art Licensing Manager
  • FileMaker Bento
  • GYST
• Desktop communications software
  • ClassDojo
• Desktop publishing software
  • Adobe FrameMaker
  • Adobe InDesign
• Development environment software
  • Adobe ActionScript
  • Unity Technologies Unity
  • Unreal Technology Unreal Engine
• Document management software
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Code Line Art Files
• Electronic mail software
  • Email software
• Enterprise application integration software
  • Extensible markup language XML
• Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Adobe Creative Cloud software
  • Adobe FreeHand MX
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe ImageReady
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Autodesk Maya
  • Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
  • Corel Paint Shop Pro
  • Corel Painter
  • Corel Photo-Paint
  • Inkscape
  • Microsoft Paint
  • Paintbrush
  • Pixologic Zbrush
  • Serif DrawPlus
  • SmugMug Flickr
  • Xara Designer Pro X
• Instant messaging software
  • GroupMe
  • Twitter
• Internet browser software
  • Web browser software
• Object or component oriented development software
  • C#
  • C++
  • Python
• Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
• Point of sale POS software
  • Credit card processing software
• Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
• Project management software
  • WorkingArtist Systems WorkingArtist
• Video creation and editing software
  • Adobe After Effects
• Web page creation and editing software
  • Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Facebook
• Web platform development software
  • Hypertext markup language HTML
  • JavaScript
• Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

Employment Industries for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

• Independent artists, writers, and performers
  2,800 employed
• Software publishers
  700 employed